Blind people do not see. Seems pretty obvious, no? Wrong.

When asked what they think a blind person sees, most people (and probably most of you) answer total blackness or darkness. Sadly, that's not the case, or at least usually isn't (I say usually because people who become blind often retain memory of vision and see blackness instead). A blind person sees nothing. They have no sensation of sight.There's no blackness of any kind. There isn't anything.

I hope your mind is sufficiently blown.

If not: The brain named itself. Courtesy of mmmspeedy.

The brain is the one thing the brain can not understand.

We are atoms trying to learn all about other atoms.

11 years ago*

Comment has been collapsed.

Well that's assuming the person was born blind, if they went blind after having years of sight they'd still have that "mind's eye" thing that everyone has :P

11 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

I mentioned that, yeah. Pretty amazing what the brain can do.

11 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

blown by the last part

"The brain is the one thing the brain can not understand. We are atoms trying to learn all about other atoms"

love it

11 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

There are actually A LOT of things a brain can not understand. We collectively understand times and times less than we don't understand.

11 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Most things we eventually understand or figure out.

11 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

The human mind cannot imagine something it has never experienced. Rather, it tries to extrapolate the unknown by piecing together experiences from the known.

11 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

What if the Blind see the emptiness of the universe?

11 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Nah. I've encountered the concept of "nothing" long ago when dealing with what's in (outer) space.

11 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Nothing blown here.

11 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Can I... fix that? ;)

11 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Depends. Are you female? ;P

11 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

No. Are you? ;)

11 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

You are awesome.

11 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

+1

11 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

So stupid question... But some one ask again and again...

11 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

What's stupid?

11 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Blind people do not see = false

Therefore:
Blind people see = true

11 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Nothing wrong here. Nothing at all

11 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

lol i get it now

11 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Nope they just constantly see the meaning of all life and the universe, they just never tell us

11 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

i went blind once... im not lying... you see my body sweats alot and i dehydrate even when i read books and also i got low lung capacity and cant breeth fast for a long time, and i did a a 800 m jog, cam back with class starting streatching and bang! i clnd hear or see, and that is right i didnt see anything.... only imagine, i think it is becuase there wasnt eough blood supply with oxygen in it..

11 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

how can you read books when you're blind... unless you learned braille in like 2 days after you were blind.

11 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

idiot, i said i sweat even when im reading and its a cold day, get it now?

11 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

ah I see I see.

11 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

took you 5 days to get it -_-

11 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Real life testimony woo. And yeah I know someone who has had that happen. He nearly passed out but was still aware.

11 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

same, nearly passed out, was soo scared

11 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

and due to neuroplasticity, our brains can restructure itself to use the visual part of our brain to do something else. pretty awesome shit eh?

11 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Blind people sees you for who you are and not what you are, inner beauty.

11 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Even if you're a 3 ton mcdonald muching motherfucker? :D

11 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Remember they can't see so no complaints there.

11 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Lol

11 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Mind = blown

Try this one on for size: The brain named itself o.O

11 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

The only thing the brain can not understand is the brain.

11 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

soo true

11 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Lol... tell me and the other budding neuroscientists that...

11 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Well we hardly know how the brain works. It sends electroneural signals to nerves (yes I made up a word) to control the body and is made of neurons. What else do we know?

11 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

It's pinkish.

11 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Actually, alot. We know how those action potentials are propogated, the neural basis of vision, different types of neurons and their functionality, we are learning about adult neurogenesis in the hippocampus and its role in memory, we know a good bit about neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's, and we also know a lot about gene expression and the development of the nervous system from studying models like the zebrafish. And now I'm too lazy to type anymore to you.

Booya mothafucka.

11 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

What. We understand the basics of how the brain works. We understand psychology, and we are making great strides in both neuroscience and chemistry, I think we understand how the brain works.

11 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

We understand basics but not fully how things such as memory storage work. We are making great strides, yes, but we're not fully sure of anything at this point. And until human behaviour is predictable I have to disagree.

11 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

yes, but you said "cannot" not "currently does not".
Memory storage is very close to being cracked
And human behavior is very predictable in a lot of cases, look at experiments by people like BF Skinner and Pavlov.

11 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

How you you even pronounce the name "o.O?"

11 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

its an emoticon -_-

11 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Alot of people are not exactly totally blind either, they just see really blurry and light

11 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Visually impaired, not blind.

11 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Legally blind, often.

11 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

I know there's a giveaway for this somewhere...

11 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Shiiiit he knows! Maybe to find the link, you have to stop seeing...

11 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

lol

11 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

It all depends on what kind of blindness they have. Is the problem in the eye or in the occipital lobe of the brain. For interest sake, you get a kind of blindness where the person denies that he is blind. It's called Anton's Syndrome.

11 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Wouldn't both a fully dysfunctional eye or lobe cause total blindness?

11 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Yes, both can cause total blindness. But with a functional lobe your brain can still create images. But not when they where born blind, like you mentioned.

11 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

My hands can touch anything but themselves...

11 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Holy literal fuck.

11 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Your elbow is not going to lick itself! Go on...

11 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

I just touched the palm of my hand with my thumb.

11 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

You can't touch anything and never will touch anything since electrons repel eachother. Yes you are floating right now.

11 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

11 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

You know when you have a birthday and you're say 20, people say "It's my 20th birthday", well its not. It's your 21st as your actual birth was your first birthday.. ;P

11 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Not really...Birthdays celebrates the anniversary of your birth. So your birth cannot be part of it...

11 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Your first birthday is when you're born... He has a point.

11 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

you only have ONE birthday, he's actually right. What we celebrate is the anniversary of our birth date. There's no anniversary at day 0. People skip the "anniversary" word because it's faster that way.

11 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

So how old is a newborn?

11 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

0.

11 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

That's not completely correct. It depends on what we refer. Do we refer to his physical age, or to the age of his DNA? Because in case that we are referring to the age of his DNA, then it is always his current physical age plus the physical age of his mother when she bore him.
Sources: ENG - Point 17 "Real age" / ES

11 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Or the age of the father when the child was born.

11 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Not sure about this. Read the source I linked...

11 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

他們什麼也看不見

11 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

there still is that same darkness, just they have nothing tangible to compare it to so to them it "seems" like nothing even though it is actually something, black a.k.a. the absence of light.

11 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Only if they're not born blind.

11 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

you seem to have misunderstood what i am saying, i am saying it is still the same darkness as what we perceive as "black" its just they don't have anything "tangible" or "comparable" for them to understand it under the term black

11 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

This is true. I have been 100% blind since birth.

11 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Then how do you typ and play games :o?

11 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

We blind folk have special powers.

11 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Super Power!

11 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Clairvoyance, obviously.

11 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Clairvoyance... wut ,__,?

11 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Very interesting, my mind is blown. I have always been intrigued by how people with impaired senses experience the world. I guess you can't really know how it feels unless you had the same imparities. But you know, if a person is born blind, how does he describe what it feels like to not be able to see anything?? He has never seen anything, so he doesn't know what to compare to. Mind = even more blown o,o

11 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Thanks.

11 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

You are very welcome.

11 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Mind not blown unfortunately. Did you know that some blind people can see without being consciously aware of it? Example

11 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Now my mind is blown.

11 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

11 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

So um, have you guys read Dune Messiah / Children of Dune? The blind can see by looking into the future!

11 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

+1

11 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

He sees by looking, but her looks by seeing.....

11 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

So, is there any volounter to prove this theory?

11 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

yes. i am blind. show me the way. what i usually see is merely memories before i went blind. i imagine things with those memories. such as, if i'm speaking to a man, i'd have an image of my father speaking with me. as for woman, it's either my mother or sister depending on their age (which i can tell from their voice) and yes, i am not blind.

11 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

"yes. i am blind"........"and yes, i am not blind." ..
Wut?

11 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

i cannot see what i typed

11 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

But you can see what others typed...

11 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

yes, and i thank god everyday for his blessing.

11 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

gjhmv,xgcgggggvmjbcg bdfgjjjhvh vxdzdgjhgdhjc hfjm

I got my blind friend to type that, seriously!

11 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

well it's like saying your brain is limited by the information given to him. thanks for proving the obvious dude!

11 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Closed 11 years ago by CoolieMcAwesome.